Cross-Google Partner Manager, Gaming

Description

• EMEA Partnerships Solutions is comprised of industry experts and Cross-Google Partner Managers across various industries that partner with multiple global business, Partnerships and Product teams to help Google to achieve its strategic objectives.
• In this role, within the EMEA Partnerships Solutions team, you'll be strategic, forward-thinking, problem solving. You will help us address the challenges we face in the Gaming industry and in Russia. Most of the projects and initiatives that you will work on will span across multiple functions, including Partnerships and Products teams.
• Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.
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Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in the Gaming industry.
• Experience in the tech ecosystem in Russia.
• Ability to write and speak in English and Russian fluently.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in executing complex, strategic, and operational initiatives.
• Ability to influence in order to drive progress and commitment, working with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated emotional intelligence, with the ability to cultivate close working relationships with key leaders internally and externally.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, to solve complex problems, and to scale effectively across a large and highly distributed organization.
• Demonstrated program and partner management skills.
• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted advisor to Google teams who are key for driving progress with Gaming Priority Partners, and collaborate across teams to structure opportunities and projects into joint visions, goals, and business plans.
• Develop an understanding of Google’s activities with Gaming Priority Partners and the industry in Russia, and identify holistic cross-functional opportunities across Google’s teams and products, get buy-in from internal/external stakeholders, and drive these projects to success.
• Ensure that Gaming Priority Partners and local players in other key industries have visibility to Google Leadership and Product, aggregate and deliver partner asks and feedback to Google's Business and Engineering teams, and utilize the insights gained to create narratives for Gaming and other key industries.
• Initiate and develop holistic programmes and initiatives for Gaming and other key industries, addressing industry and consumer needs.